Takeaway: County could gain $75,000 in transient occupancy taxes, while incurring additional administrative, enforcement and infrastructure costs. Ten months after quietly lobbying state lawmakers to make it easier to approve small commercial campgrounds regardless of…
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After years of debate over how to regulate short-term rentals such as Airbnbs, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed staff to prepare a new, countywide ordinance while rejecting nearly all proposed limits…
Construction of a new Grocery Outlet on South Franklin Street in Fort Bragg has been pushed back to May, council member Lindy Peters said Monday. “I know a lot of people are concerned about grocery…
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A federal judge in the Northern District of California on Thursday affirmed the authority of sheriff’s deputies to enforce criminal laws prohibiting large-scale cannabis cultivation on tribal land. The ruling marked a victory for Mendocino…
What began as an ambitious vision to bridge the digital divide and invigorate Fort Bragg’s economy with a municipal fiber-optic broadband network is becoming a morass of construction challenges and public scrutiny. Sarah McCormick, the…
A week before Christmas, interim City Manager Robert Richardson called an all-hands meeting of city employees. “I don’t want to sugarcoat this,” Richardson told them. “There are those of us who will not be here…
Cost of handling homelessness, drug-addiction and street-level crime is rising faster than revenues. Addressing the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, a panel of county public safety leaders said the challenges they face are increasingly driven…
Matthew LaFever’s $10,000 bond was exonerated on Monday by Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Keith Faulder, two months after LaFever was arrested by the Ukiah Police Department on suspicion of misdemeanor child annoyance or molestation…